Cognition - Lecture 7 (Human Cognition)
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- Lecture 7 - Human Cognition
- Cognition is what happens in our heads when we:
- identify / categorise objects in the world
- remember stuff
- problem solve, decision make, imagining
- Elements of a functional/ computational account
- representation (of information)
- processes (that transform representations)
- "architecture"(the organisation of these components)
- control mechanisms (that enable/disable such organisations)
- Components of reading
- LEXICAL ACCESS
- Identify letters and represent their sequence
- Identify words
- Identify letters and represent their sequence
- Retrieve:
- -Syntactic class (and other usage properties)
- Interpret sentence structure
- Interpret sentence meaning
- Interpret intention of speaker
- -Word meaning (= concepts)
- -Word meaning (= concepts)
- EXTRA-LINGUISTIC CONTEXT & KNOWLEDGE
- Interpret intention of speaker
- Interpret intention of speaker
- Interpret intention of speaker
- Interpret sentence meaning
- Interpret sentence structure
- -Syntactic class (and other usage properties)
- LEXICAL ACCESS
- Introspective reports
- We can examine and describe what we are consciously aware of as we perform cognitive operations
- The oldest method but such reports:
- -give little access (only some) products, no processes
- -are often misleading: they are constructs
- Cognition is what happens in our heads when we:
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